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I had a need to read a file multiple times in CL recently (ugh!). But, that CLOSE command was just the ticket. A very welcome addition.


Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer – ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:35:12 -0600
Subject: Re: RCVF in CL
From: bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

If you're on a reasonably current release, check out the CLOSE CL command.
You close the file and the next RCVF reopens it at the start.

Bruce Vining

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks .... I'm seeing about this now. Looks like it should work.

Rich


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On 2/9/2015 4:18 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

Is this what you are looking for?

POSDBF OPNID(XXX) POSITION(*START)

On 2/9/2015 3:09 PM, Rich Loeber wrote:

I have a program that reads a short source physical file during
processing. Over the course of processing, it may need to go
back
and
re-read the file again and I've hit a brain cramp on how to get
it
to
start over without ending the program.

Is there a secret here?

Rich
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